CD‑18 voters say this March primary matters. After being redistricted and going more than a year without representation, many say they’re ready for steady leadership again. They’re energized, paying attention, and prepared to move forward with someone in place who can represent them.
Rep. Al Green casts his vote today as a candidate for Texas’ 18th Congressional District. After recent redistricting shifted district boundaries and placed his residence outside the TX‑09 lines he once represented, he’s now running under the new map.
Rep. Christian Menefee of Texas, the newest member of Congress, started the job Monday – and now has just four weeks to convince Houston voters he already deserves reelection.
Early voting for the March 3 primaries begins Feb. 17.
Meet the Dallas pastor running to replace Jasmine Crockett
State Rep. James Talarico (D-Austin) announced his US Senate campaign’s new anti-corruption agenda on Thursday morning, which includes implementing term limits for Supreme Court justices.
National Slavery & Human Trafficking Prevention Month seeks to bring awareness to a very real problem. Here’s how Texans can make a difference.
Bobby Pulido watched Trump raids hit his neighbors. Now the Tejano star wants to flip Texas’ 15th Congressional District blue by winning Monica de la Cruz’s seat in Congress.
U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey, D-Fort Worth, announced Monday he is withdrawing from the race for Tarrant County judge, a week after his 11th-hour decision to run for the county executive post.
US Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Dallas), a progressive critic of the Trump administration, stepped into the US Senate race on Monday and upended the Democratic primary.
Colin Allred is dropping out of the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate and pivoting to run instead for the Dallas-based 33rd Congressional District.
Dozens of new Texas laws will take effect in December and January, bringing wide-ranging changes to the state’s education system, law enforcement, taxes and more.
So far, there’s three Democrats looking to defeat Greg Abbott and become the governor of Texas, but do they have what it takes? Here’s one Texan’s opinion.
Welcome to Texas Tea, a monthly column by a 24-year-old political activist, Ricky Longoria. Ricky views what’s happening in Texas from a unique lens.
The federal government shut down early Wednesday, meaning nearly 250,000 federal employees and members of the military in Texas won’t receive paychecks.
Facing a second lawsuit over his new congressional map for Texas—labeled by critics as “racial gerrymandering”—Gov. Greg Abbott curtly dismissed the legal challenges.
Voters in Houston’s 18th Congressional District head to the polls in November to pick a replacement for US Rep. Sylvester Turner, who died in March.
State Rep. James Talarico, a 36-year-old Presbyterian seminarian and former middle school teacher, announced Tuesday that he’s running for US Senate.
Our communities have changed. They’ve grown. They’re focused on the future. We deserve a representative who’s ready to grow with us.
The listening sessions come about two years after Fort Worth sold its decades-old downtown central library building, and one year after it purchased a nearby, 100-year-old building as a new location.
Former US Rep. Beto O’Rourke rallied with hundreds of people in Fort Worth on Saturday against the GOP’s redistricting plan that would flip five congressional seats currently held by Democrats.
US Rep. Marc Veasey (D-Fort Worth) spoke at Greater Saint Stephen First Church, which currently sits in the diverse congressional district he has represented since 2012, on the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act.
Texas redistricting is a GOP power grab and an effort to blunt the political power of Black and brown Texans.
Watch as state Rep. Nicole Collier (D-Fort Worth) shares what’s at stake for Texans, and democracy, if the GOP’s redistricting plan passes. It disenfranchises Black and brown voters and flips five US House seats currently held by Democrats to Republicans.
Republican lawmakers have “lost track” of their job, according to state Rep. Nicole Collier (D-Fort Worth), after putting a vote on redistricting before a vote on flood relief and emergency preparedness legislation.
Texas Democrats are battling Republicans over a GOP redistricting plan that would flip five US House seats currently held by Democrats, and Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Dallas) is urging Texans to fight back, organize, and vote.
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Although Texas House Democrats left the state to block a Republican redistricting bill, Republicans in the Texas Senate passed bills targeting trans people and THC.
US Rep. Al Green said Gov. Greg Abbott ought to be “ashamed” for trying to redraw the state’s congressional districts and targeting his Houston-area seat.
Opponents of proposed redrawn Congressional maps in Texas say the changes will hurt Latino, Black and Asian voters.
After Democrats in the Texas Senate tried—and failed—to stop a vote approving a Republican bill redrawing the state’s congressional maps, state Sen. Borris Miles (D-Houston) delivered a fiery message to voters.
The Senate vote, though, is moot as Democrats blocked the bill in the state House. Gov. Greg Abbott has promised to call another special session to pass the measure.
